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Activity 7P: ANALYZING RIZAL’S LETTER ON AGRARIAN

UNREST
PART 1:
Date of Publication Late 19th century
1. Spanish bureaucracy was
characterized by graft and corruption -
inability to provide for basic needs of public
works, schools, peace and order.
2. Social class discrimination - people in the
upper class (principalia) as well as those in
Notable Social Problems in the Philippines
authorities were given so much privilege
during that Era
compared to the lower class or the natives
3. Blind Obedience through Oppressive
Force – Guardia Civil became an oppressive
force in the provinces, harassing farmers and
using their position for personal profit, as
Rizal depicts so vividly in his novels.
1. Unlimited power.
Cited powers of the Head of the Household 2. He is responsible for the state of affairs.
Two Primary Groups that Challenged the 1. The educated, the independent, those who
Status quo of the Principalia live by themselves without the necessity of
crutches or sponsors, those eager for justice
and peace, those filled with reproaches
against the iniquities and tyrannies of some
classes, those, in short, denounced by their
enemies as filibusteros because they are
composed of honorable men and from which
group the real filibusteros would come if the
present lamentable system were continued.
2. The shiftless, the intriguer, the improperly
called by the party of the friars because they
obey and observe them and because they are
considered as the strong supporters of the
friars, although the latter have neither love
nor respect for them and may become their
most contemptible enemies when they are no
longer useful. A small group belongs to a
neutral position. These people are the
indifferent ones.

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 1. They were afraid that the people would
turn their backs against them.
2. Political maturation of the Filipinos as a
Reasons of the Friars in Making the Natives
people are beginning to discern
socially ignorant and blind
3. To continue their selfish desires in staying
in their positions as authorities and to enjoy
their pivileges and power
1. To Give liberties
Fundamental solutions proposed in the Article 2. Political reforms

To vilify a nation,
PART 2: Expound the following statement of Jose Rizal “

there is nothing better than to generalize the bad in it,

just to ennoble it, one should strengthen it by good
examples.”
To vilify means to make comments about someone to make him look bad. In this statement it is
in the context of a nation. To make a nation look bad or belittle its worth, the best thing to do is
state all of the negative or unpleasant things about it then construct an image of it based on these
things. Like for example, to tell a story or write an article about the nation that would make it
sound like this nation is nothing but a reek of racism. On the other hand, to give it a title or rank
of nobility, the people of it should demonstrate and manifest good examples better yet by
incorporating principles and values. For example, the people who expresses unity in the action of
volunteer work in the middle of crisis, organizing a movement for environmental sustainability
like publishing a law on plastic use of the citizens, etc.
PART 3: TRACING THE HACIENDA CALAMBA
1.) What religious order originally owned the Hacienda Calamba?
Hacienda de Calamba was donated in 1759 by Don Manuel Jauregui to Jesuits on the condition
that he would be permitted to live at the Jesuit monastery for life with a pension of 25 pesos per
month until his death. Then the Jesuit sold Hacienda de Calamba to Don Clemente de Azansa for
44, 507 pesos in 1803. Then Azansa sold it to Dominican Order for 52, 000 pesos.

2.) How did the Dominican friars claim the ownership of the hacienda?
Ownership of the Calamba hacienda passed on to the Dominicans after the Jesuits, who
originally owned it, were expelled in 1768. The Dominicans owned practically all the lands
around Calamba. The original hacienda owned by the Jesuits consisted of only a small part of
land and included only a part of the town, but the Dominicans had claimed a much more
extensive area, no less than the whole town and its surrounding fields.
3.) How many hectares of land in Calamba were leased by the family of Rizal? What was the
main commodity planted in the hacienda?
After Rizal's father had moved to the Calamba hacienda, the Rizal family in the 1890s rented
from the hacienda over 390 hectares. Sugar is the main commodity planted in the hacienda.